DOF in the ESystem ex&les vs others

[bdcolen]

I, too, would like greater control over depth of field - but not enough to go to the larger, noisier, not as well built, polyester-smooth-image-producing Canons. ;-)

 

[strayphotos]

Is there any chance that the whole depth of field issue could become mute is someone makes a plugin for Photoshop that can duplicate that will take care of this. Does anyone know Photoshop and computers well enougth to say if this is a real possability or not?

Adam

 

[walrichard]

> [It is quite possible to create shallow DOF in Photoshop. You make a > duplicate of the background layer, select the part you want out of > focus on the top layer, (using the pen tool and/or the Extract filter, > delete it to see the bottom layer, and Gaussian blur the bottom layer > to the effect you need. Finally collapse layers to save the image. > (It is a good idea to keep the layers as a copy until all is OK'ed.). > It is a lot of work though compared to taking the shot, so for > specific photos that you are taking seriously.]

 

[strayphotos]

Thx Richard. Far too much work for me who generally likes to shoot a good 80% of my subjects with minimum depth of field on bright lenses BUT as you have explained it is possible. My hope would be that in time this will become as easy as a pre defined filter that I could apply to all pictures I took to give me the look I was after (or used to).

While on the topic of Photoshop, are there filters available that will duplicate the look of particular types of film (B&W Grain, or Ilford XP2 grainless dye, Kodak NC etc?)

Adam

 

[jsmisc]

You might try Iridius:

http://www.iridius.co.uk/pages/ps_actions.html

they have loads of quick fixes.

Cheers,
John

 

[walrichard]

> [There is a filter in Photoshop called Blur>lens blur which appears to > have a dof amount, but I have yet to work out how best to use it. You > can introduce as much 'noise' as you like to replicate grain. There > are people who make all sorts of filters for Photoshop users, but I > have not come across what you describe. Use the channel mixer > monochrome to convert to black and white. > ]